Portable folding shoe-shine stand



Dec. 25, 1923. 1,478,906

R. A. NEMANICH PORTABLE FOLDING SHOE SHINE STAND Filed April 29. 1922Patented Dec. 25, I923.

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RALPH A. NEMANICH, OF JULIET, ILLINOIS.

PORTABLE BUILDING SHOE-SHINE STAND.

Application filed April 29, 1922. Serial No. 557,443.

This invention relates to portable shoe shining equipment, carried byboys in most every town and city, whereby a person can have his shoesshined most anywhere without the necessity of having to look for ashining parlor.

An important and more specific object is the provision of a device ofthis character constructed so that a person may have both shoes on thestand at one time, thereby avoiding the objectional changing of one footand then the other on the stand, as on the present one-foot stands. IStill it may be carried, folded, in the size of the present one-footstand, together with all equipment therein.

An additional object is the provision of a device of this characterwhich will be very simple and inexpensive in manufacture,

highly eflicient'in use, durable in service, and

a general improvement in the art.

With the above and other objects and advantages in view, the inventionconsists in the details of construction to be hereinafter more fullydescribed and claimed, and illus trated in the accompanying drawing, in

which- Figure 1 is a perspective showing my device disposedupon afloor,opened, as in actual use. The floor being merely suggesteddiagrammatically. i

Figure 2 is a perspective showing my device closed, as when carried, notin use.

Referring more particularly to the drawing, A designates the floor, andB designates my device as a whole.

In carrying out my invention I provide two separate rectangular boxes 10and 11,

consisting of two ends, one, top piece and one side piece to each box,formed of either one-half inch thick hardwood or light sheet metal, eachbox twelve inches long, four and one-half inches high and'four and onehalf inches wide. These two boxes are held together by hinges 12, whichpermit box 11 to close into box 10. To accomplish this the two ends 13of box 11 are each placedinward one-half inch to permit their passage bythe sides l'of box 10. Disposed on top of each boxis a foot stand 15,preferably of' cast iron or pressed out of sheet iron, to receiv'e theshoes for the shining. When box is notin use and closed a smallhook andstaple on the two sides will keep it firmly closed and shining equipmentsafely inside.

While I have shown and described the preferred embodiment of myinvention, it is of course to be understood that I reserve the r ht tomake such changes in the form,

construction, and arrangement of parts as will not depart from thespirit of the invention or the scope of the subjoining claims.

bers each comprising an upper, a side and two end plates, foot restspositioned upon said upper plates, and said members being hingedlyconnected along-adjacent edges of said upper plates whereby said membersmay be swung to extended or folded position.

2. A shoe shining stand comprising two members providing when inoperative position supporting means mounting co-planar upper platesarranged adjacent each other, foot rests positioned on said upperplates, and said members being constructed to fold one within the otherto form a compact. closure readily portable. 1

In testimony. whereof I aiiix my signature.

RALPH A. NEMANICH.

